Strip away any personal labels and look at it just from the words said. When you do that and apply the law, it is hate speech as defined here.
"Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the
communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity,
national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic
and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women". definitions.uslegal.com...

Was this likely to induce violence? Just the words say it was a call to violence by like minded people to thump on white folks.
If this was a US citizen, I could look past it, but a illegal criminal? How is this fool getting money? What SSAN number is he using cuz you gotta
fill out a tax form for skool no? Is Berkeley committing fraud here knowing this? Hmmm

How can you attend a college/university, especially one like Berkeley, without the proper information to enroll?

Don't know about the US but over here in the UK you require information like a national insurance number to apply for financial support/student loan,
never mind proof of your qualifications to be considered for interview for a place on a course.

Nobody here likes what he said. Just like nobody here likes that picture of an Albany HS black student and a coach with nooses drawn over their
necks. Free speech is free speech. If the intent is to cause riot then yeah I can agree.
You remember when posters from the right all scrambled to defend that instagram picture? I think you were one of them but I am not sure. So what makes
this any different?

Do you really want to go there?

That student was a minor... still a child. This fool is an adult, in college. The minor posted a very disturbing picture of two people. The adult
openly called for overt racial violence on a large scale. The minor has not committed a crime. The adult admitted to committing a crime... actually
bragged about it.

The other differences: the child was white. The adult was a minority. The child was an American citizen. The adult was not. The adult is an admitted
'progressive.' The child's political affiliation is unknown.

Perhaps what I am about to say is overly offensive, but it is what is in my heart. It is said there are seven levels of Hell. I do not believe that
includes the basement, reserved for those who would harm a child. In that basement, there is a Pit of Horror too extreme for anyone to imagine. That
Pit is reserved for those who would harm a child over political ideology.

Free speech is not a license to harm others. Calls for beating the booty-fruit out of someone because of skin color at a public event is not a joke,
or even if intended to be so, indicates a severe lack of social decorum... and remember, a redneck just said that. Taken alone, this would be a
facepalm moment, one of those Freudian slips that cause others to wince in pain at the concept of such low cognizance being possible in a biped.

But it is not alone.

It comes on the heels of campus-wide riots, threats of violence against invited speakers on not one, but two recent occasions, an adamant refusal by
campus officials to enforce order, and overt support of the illegal activities mentioned above. At this point, I do jot even care what happens to the
fool with diarrhea of the mouth; if there is any justice in the world, he will be immediately detained and deported, but that is a questionable
assumption. Berkeley, however, should have its charter revoked, its principles arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit violence, every student
investigated for acts of violence, and prosecuted to the highest level if found to be involved, all degrees should be either retested or revoked, and
the entire campus should be burnt to the ground.

He claims it was a joke. Funny how he's automatically lying to save his ass huh? Most people don't publicly state a crime or their intention to commit
or incite a crime. It seems logical that he was not serious.

I'd bet anything that if it was a conservative white straight white male, and he unleashed the same words except for 'gay mexicans' on the '4th of
July' you'd be in here with a 101% different tune about all this.

He claims it was a joke. Funny how he's automatically lying to save his ass huh? Most people don't publicly state a crime or their intention to commit
or incite a crime. It seems logical that he was not serious.

Not at all. There are many instances of geniuses filming and posting crimes on social media.
www.theamericanmirror.com... My bet is that it seemed like a good idea at the time to show his
compadres how cool he was. Trash talk it may be but some people may act on it. Maybe a visit from the INS will test his mettle. Adios gilipollas.

I hope, I would actually encourage people who thought like this idiot, to speak. We can't start silencing people because of "hate speech".

At the same time, we also have the freedom to "starve the beast".

I am all for freedom of speech, but not for freedom to incite violence. There's a fine line there, and I tend to err on the side of allowing freedom
of speech. But a public call, during a ceremony where one is the guest of honor, to beat people up over skin color?

Nope, that's so far over the line I doubt he even remembered there was a line. And then to admit freely, brag no less, about being a criminal? That's
not free speech, that is arrogant criminality.

But I do agree that the biggest issue is with those in charge of Berkeley. They are not promoting free speech; they are actively stifling it by
complacently allowing violence to target only selected speakers. This emboldens others, like this fool, who then feel they have no societal bounds but
are above the law. Their crime is not just 'hate speech,' but a direct attack on the jntegrity and ability of academia in general. Berkeley has become
an embarrassment to every college that ever existed to promote higher learning. Were I to ever open another company, a degree from Berkeley would be
an instant disqualification for employment.

I have received honors at my school, and have spoken on some of those occasions. Were I to state an unpopular opinion, I would expect the school
officials to sit there, albeit uncomfortably, and show me the honor of listening. That is how new ideas are advanced. Were I to call for violence, I
would expect my mic to be turned off, be ushered from the stage by force if necessary, be severely disciplined and lose my award, perhaps be expelled
from the college, and possibly be arrested and charged with inciting a riot.

Berkeley regularly defends violence as long as it is toward opinions they do not agree with. That's actually a larger issue than just stifling free
speech; it is a crime against humanity.

i don't give to figs about what he said yes it was wrong and had no business at berkely guess what else has no business at berkely him .how is a
federally funded university allowed to let illegal aliens knowingly into there campus for classes? he is getting an award in leadership for helping
other illegals attending school to gain FINACIAL AID and legal aid . if berkely helping illegals to get finacial aid so they can get extra tutition in
their pockets that is grand theft and fraud. if they doing so in an organized system that is racketeering. how many illegal alien students have they
allowed to attend school over the years? how many Americans were turned away to make room for these illegal immigrants?

Still, even a Twitter post shows exactly how badly Berkeley is messed up by giving an award to someone that hateful. Do you really think if he doesn't
tweet it any more, it means he no longer believes it?

Don't know if he still tweets about it since we can't read them anymore. Only followers can read them.
But anyway there are thousands and thousands of worse posts than this and the author decided to pick him because it's about Berkeley.

Don't know if he still tweets about it since we can't read them anymore. Only followers can read them.
But anyway there are thousands and thousands of worse posts than this and the author decided to pick him because it's about Berkeley.

the right uses Berkeley to represent all liberals in academia, and Chicago who has the highest murder rate to represent all liberal city governments,
San Francisco to represent all leftist gay people, and Soros to fund any and all liberal organizations.........it's their "GO TO" for lots of stars
and attention

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